Anatolian religion

The traditional Hittite iconography survived but was gradually permeated by Aramaic and Assyrian influences. Orthostats (stone slabs set at the base of a wall) from Malatya on the Euphrates show Tarhun in his bull-drawn chariot receiving libations from a king dressed in his traditional robes, and there is a relief showing his battle with the dragon. At Carchemish was found a representation of...

Middle Eastern arts

...the development of a standard palace unit, known as a
bit hilani, generally adopted some centuries later by the Syro-Hittites (see art and architecture, Anatolian: Hittite period). Basalt
orthostats, as yet unsculptured, anticipated those of the Neo-Assyrian palaces; and mural paintings, like those at Mari, decorated the chambers of an upper story in the Cretan manner. The earlier...

...a hybrid and rather inferior character much influenced by Assyria, to which the Hittites frequently became subject, and also by Phoenicia and Egypt. Conspicuous in their buildings are the sculptured
orthostats that line the bases of the walls, often of coarse, black basalt awkwardly alternating with white limestone. Columns are of wood, with bases and capitals of stone, and monolithic statues,...